23 July 2014

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OFFICIAL candles are available now from Marks and Spencer at £4 each, with profits going to the Royal British Legion but please bear in mind it may not be possible to give everyone back their own candle afterwards.

Alternatively tea lights will be made available on the night.

Town Mayor Nick Hodges will light the first candle after which there will be readings and poems until the lights are extinguished at 11pm – exactly 100 years after we were officially at War.